Topic: Fantasy Premier League

[Crosby Nick]

15 points

8 more than me! Although only had two players play so far!

[paulrazor]

29

Palmer and Richarlison brought in and they scored, so did Gordon and a clean sheet for Konsa

Still Saka as captain to go, good start

[Crosby Nick]

I brought in Porro, at least he got an assist. My keeper is Ederson so that was a bit shite. And because I used free hit I had Gusto as my third sub and the useless twat actually got a clean sheet so probably won’t get points for that.

[Chakan]

8 more than me! Although only had two players play so far!

All mine have played, so 15 in total.

Just a cluster really

[Crosby Nick]

All mine have played, so 15 in total.

Just a cluster really

Serves you right for having no Redmen!

[lionel_messias]

All mine have played, so 15 in total.

Just a cluster really

You have no Arsenal or Liverpool players?

[Chakan]

Serves you right for having no Redmen!

You have no Arsenal or Liverpool players?

I have Trent and Mo. So none playing, didn’t want to trade Mo away.

Actually I have 2 west ham players yet to play but they are both 50/50 to start.

[RJH]

Swapped out Salah and Son for De Bruyne and Foden.


The usual transferred-in curse didn't work on De Bruyne, 27 points so far with 5 still to play.

[GreatEx]

Started the gameweek equal top of my league, now 54 points behind. This wildcard is not going well! Need Darwin to score a double hat trick.

[Crosby Nick]

Used my free hit, brought in Jota and Nunez and captained Diogo. Up the Reds!

[GreatEx]

Good job by the game runners putting Darwin as a slight injury doubt, that convinced me to remove his captain's armband and give it back to Watkins, who had worn it since Mo left. Would have been very annoying if I'd ballsed that up (almost as annoying as using Kulusevski instead of Pigeon as my Son stand-in)

[Cruiser]

Home to Burnley next. Quansah should be starting right?

[Bennett]

Home to Burnley next. Quansah should be starting right?

Could easily be Gomez CB, TAA (or Bradley) and Robbo wing backs.

[amir87]

Took Foden out of my team for this game week. Inspired transfer.

[paulrazor]

92. Unbelievably I lost a head to head. Was 24 ahead going into tonight. Other lad had flekken and foden

[Crosby Nick]

92. Unbelievably I lost a head to head. Was 24 ahead going into tonight. Other lad had flekken and foden

Unlucky!  35 for me. Awful week, really need a wildcard.

[paulrazor]

Unlucky!  35 for me. Awful week, really need a wildcard.

defence let me down. Areola went off at HT. Konsa in min 59. One more minute I had 5 more points. Burn had -1

[GreatEx]

Absolute turd of a week, brought in my first Arsenal player this week so I had to bring in Martinelli, he of the zero contributions to a 6-0, didn't I? All my rivals have Saka and most have one of Gabriel or Saliba, some have both. Fucking arse.

[Grobbelrevell]

Had a few decent weeks in a row now. Up to the fringes of the top 100k.

The annual collapse is approaching.

[UntouchableLuis]

Absolute turd of a week, brought in my first Arsenal player this week so I had to bring in Martinelli, he of the zero contributions to a 6-0, didn't I? All my rivals have Saka and most have one of Gabriel or Saliba, some have both. Fucking arse.

Did the exact same. Also left Gabriel on the bench for good measure.

This next 2 gameweeks will be important with City, us, Luton and Brentford having double weeks. The week after us, Chelsea and Spurs have a blank week.

[UntouchableLuis]

Used bench boost this week thinking my bench options looked decent:

Steele - home to SU

Trippier - home to Bournemouth

Palmer (in great form, despite playing City)

Bell (double gameweek, admittedly vs us and United)

Ended up with 0 for Steele (didn't play), 1 for Trippier, 2 for Palmer and 1 for Bell so far with us to come...

Also had Adebayo who got injured in the warm up and Jota who is now out the 2nd game.

Only saving grace so far is that everyone else in my league has played triple captain on Haaland and I've only gone captain. But watch him score 5 vs Brentford tonight now.

[GreatEx]

I really needed Haaland to blank against Brentford, being the only one in my league without him, and several people trebling him. I suppose 10 points from two games against middling-to-poor opposition isn't the worst outcome.

[RJH]

Well, Triple-Captaining De Bruyne did not work out. Unless it contributed to City drawing with Chelsea, in which case I'll take it as a win.


Theoretically three Liverpool players tonight, but two of them are Salah and Nunez 

[GreatEx]

I am about to embark on my first gameweek without Mo Salah since... I don't know... 2017? Feels weird. I sold him for Kai Havertz of all people! I have something like 9 million in the bank. Still refuse to buy Haaland.

[UntouchableLuis]

Given up on the season now. Been a disaster after disaster.

10 points I'm on with Palmer to play and Solanke captain vs Luton.

10 points (went -4) and I have Saka, Foden, VVD, Watkins, Haaland, Solanke...

Whatever I've done this season seems to end in misery- if I put in Salah, Nunez and Trent when we play Sheffield United at home, they'll get 4 points between them somehow. Don't worry, I won't!

[paulrazor]

I was going to do with Semenyo this week but picked Solanke instead, it would have worked out better had I done that

Free hit this week with their being only 4 games.

I am amazed to see who the top scoring keeper is.

[Crosby Nick]

I was going to do with Semenyo this week but picked Solanke instead, it would have worked out better had I done that

Free hit this week with their being only 4 games.

I am amazed to see who the top scoring keeper is.

Neil Etheridge again?

[paulrazor]

Neil Etheridge again?

I had to google that

[GreatEx]

Anyone who didn't save their free hit for a week like this  must be kicking themselves.

Ollie Watkins going off injured tonight just makes things even trickier. After making my free hit selections I was left with 12.5m in the bank, if I have to ditch Watkins as well it'll be about 16m! In fact, even my regular squad has about 9m in the bank, though most of that will go on swapping Neto for Mo.

[Crosby Nick]

Anyone who didn't save their free hit for a week like this  must be kicking themselves.

Ollie Watkins going off injured tonight just makes things even trickier. After making my free hit selections I was left with 12.5m in the bank, if I have to ditch Watkins as well it'll be about 16m! In fact, even my regular squad has about 9m in the bank, though most of that will go on swapping Neto for Mo.

I have 4 players to select from. And two of them are keepers.

[UntouchableLuis]

Anyone who didn't save their free hit for a week like this  must be kicking themselves.

Ollie Watkins going off injured tonight just makes things even trickier. After making my free hit selections I was left with 12.5m in the bank, if I have to ditch Watkins as well it'll be about 16m! In fact, even my regular squad has about 9m in the bank, though most of that will go on swapping Neto for Mo.

It's a bit daft though, should have been tagged on to another gameweek. You can't really expect a gameweek to look like this one coming really.

Basically just means everyone who has free hit left will pick about 9 players the same.  Anyone who doesn't have free hit left either has to go -12 or more or they could be finished.

[Rhi]

I have 4 players to select from. And two of them are keepers.

This is also my situation 😂

[Emerald Red]

Couldn't afford Solanke, had to make do with Captain Semenyo

26th in RAWK     

[paulrazor]

It's a bit daft though, should have been tagged on to another gameweek. You can't really expect a gameweek to look like this one coming really.

Basically just means everyone who has free hit left will pick about 9 players the same.  Anyone who doesn't have free hit left either has to go -12 or more or they could be finished.

always save it for this week as it happens every year

First year I recall I think it was my second highest total of season

Had Salah captain, beat Watford 5-0

4 goals, 90 mins, clean sheet, assist and 3 bonus

58 points alone for that

[GreatEx]

Exactly, it's an annual event, if you've played the game a few years then you know the score. Either you use your free hit on this, or save it for when all the rescheduled matches create a double gameweek bonanza.

They can't really roll up these 4 games into another gameweek, that would mean eliminating a gameweek entirely, which would mess up their algorithms and prizes and so forth.

[Cruiser]

All the teams this GW are shit, very hard to pick the right players for freehit.

[GreatEx]

West Ham, Spurs and Villa have enough nice midfield options, Brentford has Toney and if Watkins is fit then you have all your obvious picks sorted. Defence and GK are the difficult picks, no one can be trusted there.

I've gone with mostly obvious picks, but went with Paqueta and Hudson-Odoi as my wildcards; Forest are playing Luton who clearly can't defend at all, so you pretty much have to choose an attacker against them.

[GreatEx]

Well I couldn't have fucked that any worse if I tried. 11 points from 7 players including captain. 24 points from 2 Fulham players left on the bench. I need Watkins to not play so I can get one of them on, but of course he will play.

[lionel_messias]

When Spurs are you best go-to option in the GW,
that's a measure of how fecked things are - and proven: THE FULL Spursy unlocked.

[keano7]

Knew this week was going to be a disaster but in a position in my league where I had to play safe. Only player who I got a return from was Fofana. 21pts from 8 players including captain is pathetic. 3 left tomorrow so hopefully I can hit 30pts.